Thursday, August 30, 2012

Locally Laid Eggs

Jason Amundsen liked his flock of five chickens, which he and his wife kept in their Duluth backyard. The eggs were delicious.
So,
he thought, why not get a few more — about 1,795 more — raise them in
the fresh air and sunshine, give them clean feed and good grass, and let
all of Duluth have a good egg for breakfast?
And why not try to make a living selling good eggs under a memorable name?

Locally
Laid eggs are now for sale at a few retail locations around Duluth, as
well as at several restaurants. Amundsen spends his days caring for his
flock of friendly chickens, each one named Lucie (also the name of
Amundsen’s wife and business partner), and hoping that customers will
pay a little extra for a good egg.

Locally Laid was brought to my attention by Jordan Wiklund, my editor at Voyageur Press. Jason and Lucie Amundson are friends of his, and he attends classes at Hamline
University in St. Paul with Lucie. He and Lucie formerly wrote for now-defunct Living North magazine.

About Me

As a professional journalist, I began writing about heritaqe poultry after my daughter and I acquired our first chickens in the 1980s. Voyageur Press invited me to write How to Raise Chickens in 2007, followed by How to Raise Poultry in 2009. New editions of both were published in 2013 and 2014. The poultry book covers ducks, geese, swans, turkeys, guineafowl, game birds and ratites as well as chickens.
My next book, The Backyard Field Guide to Chickens, will be available in May 2016.
Traditional breeds are the best choice for small flocks. I continue as a regular contributor to Backyard Poultry magazine.